Bus & ferry times – Koh Lipe to Hat Yai

The most direct way to travel from Koh Lipe to Hat Yai is to take a speedboat or ferry from Koh Lipe to Pak Bara Pier on the mainland, and from there to take a minivan to Hat Yai. Your other travel options, such as taking a ferry from Koh Lipe to Koh Lanta and then a ferry and bus from there to Hat Yai, will take at least 5 hours longer and you will spend at least twice as much on your journey.

Travel Times to Hat Yai

An easy and quick way to complete the journey from Koh Lipe to Hat Yai is to book a direct service combining ferry and minivan journeys from Koh Lipe all the way to Hat Yai. You have a choice between arriving at either the city centre train station or at Hat Yai Airport.

Koh Lipe

Destination

Arrival

Cost

Company

09.00

Hat Yai Train Station

13.30

599 THB

Sukhothai Tour

09.00

Hat Yai Airport

13.30

699

Sukhothai Tour

09.00

Hat Yai Train Station

15.00

1,150

Tigerline Travel

09.00

Hat Yai Airport

13.30

700

Jolly Travel

09.00

Hat Yai Airport

14.30

1,150

Tigerline Travel

09.00

Hat Yai Train Station

13.30

600

Jolly Travel

09.30

Hat Yai Train Station

14.00

590

Smart en Plus

09.30

Hat Yai Bus Station

14.30

700

Smart en Plus

09.30

Hat Yai Airport

13.30

650

Smart en Plus

11.00

Hat Yai Train Station

15.30

599 THB

Sukhothai Tour

11.00

Hat Yai Airport

15.30

650

Sukhothai Tour

11.30

Hat Yai Train Station

16.00

590

Smart en Plus

11.30

Hat Yai Bus Station

16.30

700

Smart en Plus

11.30

Hat Yai Airport

15.30

650

Smart en Plus

13.00

Hat Yai Train Station

17.30

599 THB

Sukhothai Tour

13.00

Hat Yai Airport

17.30

650

Sukhothai Tour

13.30

Hat Yai Train Station

18.00

1,150

Tigerline Travel

13.30

Hat Yai Airport

17.30

1,150

Tigerline Travel

13.30

Hat Yai Train Station

18.00

590

Smart en Plus

13.30

Hat Yai Bus Station

18.30

700

Smart en Plus

13.30

Hat Yai Airport

17.30

650

Smart en Plus

All services to Hat Yai depart from Koh Lipe Pier.

Not all services run every day of the year. Some services only operate during high season. You can check whether a particular service is running on the day you plan to travel by using the Search Box below.

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Sukhothai Tour Hat Yai

Passengers on the joint speedboat and minivan service operated by Sukhothai Tour Hat Yai have a choice of two arrival points in Hat Yai: Hat Yai Train Stationor Hat Yai Airport. Unless you are planning to take a flight from Hat Yai Airport, then we recommend that you alight at Hat Yai Train Station. The train station in Hat Yai is close to the most popular part of Hat Yai with foreign visitors, near to a cluster of hotels, bars and restaurants. Hat Yai Bus Station is 2 km away from the train station and a journey there by local taxi van or motorbike taxi should cost between 40 and 60 THB.

Journey to Hat Yai

The journey from Koh Lipe to Hat Yai has two stages, both taking approximately the same length of time. If you take a direct service, combining ferry and connecting minivan service, then the overall time will be around 4 hours 30 minutes. The journey will be longer if you have a long wait at the pier for a connecting bus or minivan to Hat Yai. The journey time will also be longer if you choose to take a bus rather than minivan. Bus services in Thailand tend to be a lot slower than minivan services because they often stop on route, and make detours, to drop off passengers and parcels.

Hat Yai is famous for its Chinese fish restaurants

The first part of the journey from Koh Lipe to Hat Yai is by speedboat to Pakbara Pier. Ferries from Koh Lipe to Pakbara Pier depart daily at 09.00, 09.30, 11.00, 11.30, 13.00 and 16.00, although some of these ferry services only run from November through to May each year. The journey by speedboat takes 1 hour 30 minutes.

The second part of the journey from Koh Lipe to Hat Yai is by road from Pakbara Pier to Hat Yai. The distance from Pakbara Pier to Hat Yai by road is 123 km which, if you travel directly in a minivan or a car, takes slightly less than 2 hours to travel.